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Four and a half billion years ago, we spent a billion years being single celled organisms. Then we progressed to metazoans. To reproduce, we still go back to being single celled creatures. Calvin’s claim to fame is quite justified, as is his love of Bugs Bunny, but he’s just another metazoan.

Most of my Moes are dead now, and the world is a better place without them, I gloat and have absolutely no guilt about it. I’m so happy that they are dead. That Calvin can look twenty years into the future and wonder how he will feel about Moe, is an amazing quality he has, far more useful than whether he can add and subtract.

I remember turning the heat up because I was cold. Boy, did I ever get spanked that time. I was a very defiant kid. I got spanked a lot. Calvin never gets spanked. I like that. No harm will come to him from this, despite his fears. I wish my childhood had been like that.

" Dr Parkinson declared, I’m not surprised to see you here. You have smoker’s cough from smoking, brewers drip from drinking beer. I don’t know how you came to have the Betty Davis knees, but worst of all young man you have industrial disease" The next tv will be bigger with a better picture than the last for less than the cost of the last one. Look at the upside Calvin.

Economic disparity leads to more crime. In the US you can be really rich, and you can be really poor. Mr Watterson apparently suffered a home breakin, and that’s partly why we’re reading this in Calvin and Hobbes. When I was in San Francisco many years ago, it was unsafe for anyone to walk the streets at night. Here in Canada it’s unsafe for women to walk the streets at night. In Tokyo anyone can walk the streets at any time. It’s a quality of life issue that doesn’t get discussed a whole lot. The US response is, “carry a gun”, get “a vicious dog”, but some cities, don’t have that problem, even within the US. My parents had several good locks on our door in Toronto. In Santa Barbara, they left the door unlocked. In any Caribbean country every window has burglar bars. Dogs aren’t pets there. They are for security only. Reality is just accepted, never questioned.